Comments on: Lest We Forget http://commentsfromleftfield.com/2008/11/lest-we-forget Wed, 09 May 2012 10:28:37 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1 By: Chief http://commentsfromleftfield.com/2008/11/lest-we-forget/comment-page-1#comment-46571 Chief Tue, 11 Nov 2008 19:55:00 +0000 http://commentsfromleftfield.com/?p=6517#comment-46571 Thank you. Thank you.

]]> By: DrGail http://commentsfromleftfield.com/2008/11/lest-we-forget/comment-page-1#comment-46566 DrGail Tue, 11 Nov 2008 16:27:54 +0000 http://commentsfromleftfield.com/?p=6517#comment-46566 My father, who passed away on August 10th of this year at the age of 87, was also a World War II Navy veteran who served in Europe. I never knew whether he declared his religion as "unitarian" when he enlisted because he was non-religious, or because he wanted to serve in Europe and feared they would send him to the Pacific if he admitted to being Jewish. He told a wonderful story, though, about receiving shore leave in Casablanca. He and some other Jews serving on his destroyer were met at the docks by a Jewish couple who invited them to dinner. At that dinner, they uncorked a bottle of good wine that they had been saving for when their own son returned from the war. To them, having these American sailors visit them was a more significant occasion than welcoming their son home. My father, who passed away on August 10th of this year at the age of 87, was also a World War II Navy veteran who served in Europe. I never knew whether he declared his religion as “unitarian” when he enlisted because he was non-religious, or because he wanted to serve in Europe and feared they would send him to the Pacific if he admitted to being Jewish.

He told a wonderful story, though, about receiving shore leave in Casablanca. He and some other Jews serving on his destroyer were met at the docks by a Jewish couple who invited them to dinner. At that dinner, they uncorked a bottle of good wine that they had been saving for when their own son returned from the war. To them, having these American sailors visit them was a more significant occasion than welcoming their son home.

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